I went deep in two more big tourneys tonight and exited with KK both times. Once against AK and once against the dreaded AA. Since this has come to be far too common for me lately, I'm soliciting some feedback from the collective genius out there.
First tourney was $20k guarantee purse with 420 runners and I made it down to #44. Was at an average chip stack of 22k and found KK in mid position. Player directly to my right raised it 3x the BB, I bumped it to 9x (4.5k chips). Table folded around and he pushes all-in for 25k. I quickly called to see AK unsuited. Flop comes A and I'm gonzo.
Second tourney was a re-buy tourney with 200 runners and $20k purse. I wiggled my way down to 26 players remaining. Was slightly below average stack with 15k chips, but the chips were highly skewed with the top 5 players at 80-100k chips and I was #10 in chips despite being below average. I found KK in mid position again and raised it to 4x the BB (2k chips). The chip leader (100k chips) just calls me with 2k and the table folds. Flop comes Ts7s2d and I bet the pot of 5.5k chips, leaving me with 8k behind. He moves all-in, which I see as a blatant top pair or flush draw and quickly call. Instead, he flips over AA.
Any advice on how I could have avoided getting knocked out of either of these tourneys? Better play these big pairs? Have been getting deep in these tourneys but somehow finding the wrong situations at the wrong times.
BK = AK (or maybe its BK = KK)
Bankroll: $7,000 (won a couple SnG that I won't detail because I rocked 'em)
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hmmmm....the firt situation, you plain just got unlucky. you cannot blame yourself for that and you need those situations if you want to win the tourney. as it happens on that occasion, you got sucked out so perhaps feeling sore, but ultimately you played this perfectly in the sense that you got all the money in when you were clear favourite.
The second situation, well... a lot harder to read and he could easily have had what you said or even a lower over pair - i think the only way to get away from situations like this is to see how he has been playing up until then and make an educated read. If you don't know much about the table or his image, then I think anyone would have a hard time getting away from that hand. You are fairly short stacked as it is so don't beat yourself up about this. I think the best way to avoid both of these situations is maybe to make more money in the earlier rounds so you have the chip stack to take these bad beats later on?
Perhaps try varying your play at other stages of the tournament as these might be directly affecting your play in latter stages which maybe you haven't taken in to account?
Hard hand to get away from though...be interesting to hear other thoughts...
your comment about mixing up my play between early and late is a good one that I need to think more about. I have been using a small-ball pre-flop approach early to build a stack and then getting tighter and putting on more pre-flop pressure (big-ball pre-flop) later in the tourney. The key to my one big win was having a huge stack and I absorbed several bad beats against smaller stacks to eventually make the final table. I agree with you that building a stack early is absolutely key to victory. Thanks for the thoughts (by the way, Mauritius is gorgeous!)
when you back from Mauritius??
Saturday (5th)...you want to get a home game going the 15th (tues?)
Been playing a bunch of HU and 4-way shoot-outs lately. One thing that I noticed is the level of aggression is very high. To offset this, I've adopted a winning strategy that employs Dan Negreanu's lessons. Keep the pot small pre-flop. It almost never pays to play pre-flop super aggressive, in my opinion. Disguising big hands and re-raising after c-bets seems to be a much better chip extraction method.
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I have this teory that at a certain point in a tournament, specially the ones we play online, the system starts giving you hands that are no brainers i.e. you have to play them and eventually go all-in but if you are up against the chip leader or your opponent has more chips than you then you will be most likelly run over some type of hand he makes by "miracle". that happened to me so many times by now that I actually reconsider my play every time Im with hands like AQ or AK if I get reraised by someone with more chips than me. But thats just my teory :)
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